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Anticipating Freud's "Madonna-whore complex", he saw the true nature of woman as conforming to one of two types, the mother or the whore. This is due to woman's exclusive focus on sexuality, whereas Weininger [[volcel|promoted sexual continence]] as one of the highest virtues. Throughout all this, Weininger emphasizes that he is describing women as they ''are'', in his own time, based on his own observations and reasoning, and not necessarily how they have always been. | Anticipating Freud's "Madonna-whore complex", he saw the true nature of woman as conforming to one of two types, the mother or the whore. This is due to woman's exclusive focus on sexuality, whereas Weininger [[volcel|promoted sexual continence]] as one of the highest virtues. Throughout all this, Weininger emphasizes that he is describing women as they ''are'', in his own time, based on his own observations and reasoning, and not necessarily how they have always been. | ||
In sum, Weininger forcefully disparages femininity, which is consistently identified with passivity, vacuity, and animal lust, contrasting with what Weininger argued are the higher virtues which he judged only men were capable of expressing, typically. | In sum, Weininger forcefully disparages femininity, which is consistently identified with passivity, vacuity, and animal lust, contrasting with what Weininger argued are the higher virtues which he judged only men were capable of expressing, typically. Fundamentally, Weininger perceives women as lacking agency, they are not immoral but rather ''amoral''. | ||
==Homosexuality and Pederasty== | ==Homosexuality and Pederasty== | ||